University of Toronto
St George St, Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date Posted: 05/11/2023 Req ID: 31158 Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science Department: Dept of Political Science Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Description:
Course description: This course focuses on the legal and political relationship between Canada’s Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. The course provides a detailed genealogy of the relevant legal and political touchstones of the relationship from the Hawthorn Report in 1966 to the present-day Unist’ot’en roadblocks on Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia. Students will gain a sense of the historical and ongoing pendulum-like legal and political relationship between the Canadian state and Indigenous communities. Students will become familiar with a shortlist of relevant legal and political concepts: Aboriginal rights, treaty relationship, nation-to-nation, reconciliation, resurgence, honour of the Crown,...